On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:59:12PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Khimenko Victor writes:
> > - if ((tty = rindex(ttyn, '/')))
> > - ++tty;
> > + if (strncmp(ttyn, "/dev/", 5) == 0)
> > + tty = ttyn+5;
> > else
>
> Hm. util-linux-2.10f doesn't have this, 2.10h does. 2.10g isn't on
> kernel.org.
>
> However, you really should have swapped to index(3) instead (or
> better, strchr(3) which is POSIX). Building an assumption on /dev
> isn't very good either. It still wouldn't be 100% correct (it'll fall
> over if your device nodes/devfs mountpoint are deeper), but it would
> be better.
Perhaps best to look for a purely numerical last component, and in
that case take the last two components.
Andrew
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